You will be fired and banned from all commerce.
I don’t understand how the Left has managed to take over EVERYTHING. Are we that outnumbered? Are conservatives mainly retired folks?
was Bill Clinton’s My Life (2004)
Very interesting article. A long read, but well worth it! Thanks for posting.
Ah, censorship. The ultimate goal of the fascist anti-fascists.
The problem with leftist book publishes is an old one, going back until at least the 1950’s. Then it was the CPUSA front firm roughly named “Angus Cameron” and one other person’s name (if I remember correctly). It was a conduit for both communist and pro-communist writers and materials.
I don’t have my old files/articles on this, here’s a true story most have never heard though it was made public in the late 60’s/early 70’s.
Army Special Forces soldier/advisor James “Nick” Rowe was held captive by the Viet Cong for many years, thus the name of his book “Five Years to Freedom” (roughly 1963-68). He escaped while the other American prisoners either died of starvation/medical illnesses untreated, or were executed.
Nick signed with Little, Brown & Co, Boston, Mass, 1971 to publish and promote his book but he said they almost never promoted the book to bookstores and when they did, they slow-rolled it. Check out Little, Brown re other conservative books (I know that there are stories about them being lackadaisical about promoting conservative stories, some within the recent past).
Needless to say, Nick was a friend of mine. He was tragically assassinated by the Communist New Peoples Army (Maoists) while a military attache’ assigned to the Philippines.
The book “Unfit for Command” about the Swiftboat Veterans Against John Kerry (2004), never got any major newspaper review or when a lesser one did or just mentioned it, it was often to smear the 260 Vietnam veterans who participated in its composition (plus a couple of us Vietnam journalists/researcher who also worked on it).
All of this is one reason why smart conservatives/businessmen like Regnery (1947) and Tom Phillips (1970’s) started their own companies - (Richard Viguerie also had a publishing arm during the 70’s. I should remember since I worked on several of the books he published). Also there was the great Arlington House publishers of conservative books that remain building-block publications for conservatives and concerned Americans in general.
Leftist/communist infiltration of the publishing industry, as opposed to serious penetrations of major newspapers, was real and the effects of it linger on today.
Thank goodness for self-publishing and other independent publishers like St. Martin’s Press, who will help publish any book that looks worthwhile or interesting regardless of what political views it expresses. That is a tribute to the power of the First Amendment, one which is under severe attack even within the publishing world, esp. by newspapers whose devotion to the truth is “only the truth that they want to publish regardless whether it is true or not”.